I had to pick "new Finder," but I find the current Finder decent (if far from perfect).

What would actually make me happiest: an updated UI, across the board. A complete visual and UI refreshment, with much deeper use of Spotlight. Including the Finder, of course, but far more reaching than just that. I want to see new ideas that Apple's been holding off for a while now, safe from Vista's prying eyes.

Yeah I chose Faster and more efficient OS (GUI responds, spinning beachball, less memory use). Would anyone like to tell me why Safari sometimes comes to a snails pace with only a few minor apps open (AIM, Preview, Mail, Yahoo Messenger) with an iMac G5 2.1 with 512 MB memory? I know 512 MB is not a lot these but that should not bring Safari hanging! Sometimes I will get the BOD (beach ball of death) for about ten to twenty minutes before I can browse!

Yeah I chose Faster and more efficient OS (GUI responds, spinning beachball, less memory use). Would anyone like to tell me why Safari sometimes comes to a snails pace with only a few minor apps open (AIM, Preview, Mail, Yahoo Messenger) with an iMac G5 2.1 with 512 MB memory? I know 512 MB is not a lot these but that should not bring Safari hanging! Sometimes I will get the BOD (beach ball of death) for about ten to twenty minutes before I can browse!

Holy cow! You need to run Disk Utility (repair disk permissions).

You might also want to run Cocktail. You have some serious problems there.

I'm starting to wonder if there is going to be a new Finder after all. Leopard's Finder has the Sneak Peek feature and its Debug menu has a lot of stuff that looks as if the engineers are testing performance. So unless that was already there but not enabled, one has to wonder what in the world they are testing performance for if this isn't going to be the Leopard Finder.

I'm starting to wonder if there is going to be a new Finder after all. Leopard's Finder has the Sneak Peek feature and its Debug menu has a lot of stuff that looks as if the engineers are testing performance. So unless that was already there but not enabled, one has to wonder what in the world they are testing performance for if this isn't going to be the Leopard Finder.

Maybe under the hood it will be similar, but on the surface it will look and behave fundamentally different. That's worth thinking about, cause nobody knows for sure for sure what Apple has planned for the finder, or whatever they might change the name too

Yeah I chose Faster and more efficient OS (GUI responds, spinning beachball, less memory use). Would anyone like to tell me why Safari sometimes comes to a snails pace with only a few minor apps open (AIM, Preview, Mail, Yahoo Messenger) with an iMac G5 2.1 with 512 MB memory? I know 512 MB is not a lot these but that should not bring Safari hanging! Sometimes I will get the BOD (beach ball of death) for about ten to twenty minutes before I can browse!

Why not just relaunch Safari? One thing I've discovered is that Safari doesn't like to be left open especially if the machine is put to sleep.

Maybe under the hood it will be similar, but on the surface it will look and behave fundamentally different. That's worth thinking about, cause nobody knows for sure for sure what Apple has planned for the finder, or whatever they might change the name too

Yeah but what I am saying is that it is just the opposite - the surface is unchanged, but there is debug in there to test performance.

Surprisingly, at this time "Faster and more efficient OS" is choice nr.1, my expectance was "a better Finder". It is really true though that MacOS is slow when it comes to the GUI and efficiency on parts.

What I am surprised about is that Windows Vista has such high system requirements! Although it scales down with the system, requirements seem over-the-top.

I am really curious what Leopard will bring and what not. Without a better Finder, for me, Windows works better when it comes to file management (what I do a LOT with big web/game projects).

i realy do not see what is wrong with the finder? compared to windows explorer or what ever its called. when im at school i do not have a clue where i am sometimes, so to speak. with the finder, i can go where ever i want, very quickly. sometimes the best way with windows is to just close the window and start over. but yeh, in reply to the thread. umm. new gui, im not liking the brushed metal any more. time machine, yeh, should be a laugh.

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